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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art Marie Benedict and wanting to better understandOne of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 The strange story of the twentieth century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Art has poisoned our life, proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into